the pettiness of the reddit/loli/nazi/spook crowd is hilarious

i value your content so i'm going to make sure you have some little extra sats to send at least

been getting a lot of zaps lately, so it's nbd, just the weather i guess 

 There's bugs so it might not be. I've been  testing automated lightning payments since 2022. I'm having a difficult time with highlighter, but these zaps are not me.  

 I think many nostr devs underestimate the importance of balancing the zap economy because they think in abundance. There's this assumption that as nostr grows it will have money dumped into it like Facebook or YouTube except the money will go to the people instead of a corporation.

People need to wake up and realize the deep state printing money to propagandize through Facebook and YouTube in a desperate oil-starved economy probably aren't gonna suddenly do wealth redistribution through nostr adoption.

It's on us nostriches to fight against becoming another lopsided parasocial thing where few get rich and the many follow the few. 

 Yeah, or the software project gets bought by Microsoft or one of the FANGs. Like GitHub did. 

 Also, sent numbers could be lower than expected because people you zapped might be using a lightning address that does not support zaps. In that case they receive the sats, but no zap receipt is broadcast to relays. 

I did a quick check on your zaps received and they seem legit at a quick glance. Top 50 zaps received total comes out to 182k sats and you’ve received over 2k zaps. Top zap came from @ODELL on this note:

nostr:note1dm5tmuzpfv5jjyf2hvtwchs50kqeuj2tc3zwfm2ccd0gkfwmyjvqcmp78e 

 Almost all of the zaps I received are very small. Like 7 sats or 100 sats.

If I received all of those zaps, then where did they go? Poof!

The only thing I can imagine, is that they're somehow counting my big transfers in from my Relai wallet as zaps, or something. 

 transfers in would not have a zap receipt. zap requests are only created from nostr clients and zap receipts should be broadcasted from your LNURL service provider upon successful payment of the zap request. if you've changed your lightning address in the past, it's possible the zaps are going to your old lightning address. this happens if your old lightning address is on relays out there or cached on nostr clients. someone built a tool that can check relays for your outdated profile recently. i forget who made it though. 

 I did change my alby address, when I got a new npub. 🤔 

 But I changed it before adding it to my new profile. 

 I’m only looking at zaps to your current npub 

 Here’s the zap receipt of your 42k sat zap from Odell on 6/11

https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0cyyn9w3gupy9rl585z37gcqc2epvq20xagw8fnvekazxkywlveqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqgs8nuqd8adpnmyqvxyle2crcxlyl7qarrhy7efu3ravg8lqx4c0gvsrdx9tp 

 Yes, that was the biggest zap I've received. 

 Next biggest is this one for 15k on 6/9. There’s also a few 10k sat zaps. 

https://njump.me/nevent1qqstxs94w9lvk6mmnlzwmw34r9j7g9yyp0mykp8ak9z5lr8jylcmnhqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqgs8nuqd8adpnmyqvxyle2crcxlyl7qarrhy7efu3ravg8lqx4c0gvskmy6k9 

 I ran the numbers and the ones since June 5 seem to be correct. Almost all the zap from Odell and a couple other 10k+. That's the oldest screenshot I have.

The reason I'm still broke is that I spent over 521k sats, most from my Relai wallet, not my zap wallet.
Thought I was going nuts.

Still don't know why the sats received are so high, tho. I find it hard to believe that I received that many zaps within 5 months, especially as the large zaps are all recent. 

 Good grief, @mleku . 😂 

 i am animated by the holy spirit, be ye grateful of the works of the Lord 

 also, it was good grief, i had much pleasure in its loss 

 🫂  

You guys are making my day. I have enough to pay for my subscriptions next month.
I guess that's one more month where I don't need a day job. 😂 

 hey, last year i was sharing my sponsorship to help my helper in nigeria keep his internet connection on

he learned lots of internet skills, i'm pretty sure, but eventually he wasn't really focused on the task (related to https://github.com/indra-labs/indranet )

i am blessed by my fortune to have an avid and cereal tech bro organising for me to get paid as i build and learn

i am hoping that i can continue towards this advancement of my brothers and sisters, and i probably will do it again, so, watch out, if you wish no good fortune upon yourself 

 😂 

 you begged in such a humble and sweet way, that i was provoked in these hours of today that i needed to provision you with sats

it's nothing personal, but that you are a great servant of goodness in this place that i am right now and i honor that 

 I'm so glad we're frens now.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/3a/bb/fb3abb3ad0f40312794d7abd2e66e962.jpg 

 it's nothing, really

the whole reason for winning a boon is to share it 

 a lot of small zaps add up. on primal it says you've receive 2,660 zaps and i don't think that includes anon zaps. 

 I don't seem to be getting anon zaps, or only very rarely. 

 I found the explanation. I got a gigantic zap-refund for a LN-spend I'd made. So, if you remove those 300k, the sats received make sense, again.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqqsz3raygthavkly3sv3lsy777p9ddcuev76jznqwunpau0x3rlpr9s309y3d 

 @mleku zapped ⚡️28,800 sats

nostr:note1hrkqjnm5cp3dg08h2qjwf38h8add0qxy0jl0nf4dj8d4xjjw9n5s6klr82 

 28.8k is nothing

literally 18.5 usd

https://i.nostr.build/KG8aO.png 

 then they were generated by people who requested an invoice, but never completed the payment. this can happen for many different reasons. sometimes people change their mind, sometimes there's a bug with their nostr client, sometimes there's an issue with your LNURL service provider, etc.